Now that my transformation into a gingerbread man was complete, the battle for Christmas supremacy began.
As soon as my head hit the pillow and my eyes closed Sunday night, dreams of sugarplums did not dance in my mind.
More like bloody, violent dreams of sugarplums warring against a native tribe of gingerbread people.

The Anderson County boys' basketball team will get a chance to measure itself against a pair of 15th Region teams during the Kentucky Bank Challenge, to be held at Rowan County High School on Friday and Saturday.

Friday, the Bearcats take on Pikeville at 7:45 p.m.

Anderson coach Glen Drury says the Panthers should give Anderson a stern test despite starting the season with five straight losses.

“They have some size,” Drury said. “We will have to try to get up and down the floor on them.”

There will be a push in the coming year to amend Kentucky’s constitution and allow municipalities to enact a local sales tax option up to 1 percent.
If OK’d by the legislature, a statewide vote would determine if the fiscal court or city council here would be allowed to enact such a tax.
Questions about the proposal still outweigh the answers and, while we are almost always loath to support tax increases, this one might be a workable deal for Anderson County.

There's a funny thing about great basketball scoring machines. The best ones usually don't care about the points beside their name.

It's all about the team having more points than the opponent.

Check out Larry Bird's stats. During his career with the Boston Celtics, he scored 21,791 points but had 5,695 assists. Interestingly, he's putting together a team in that same mindset with the Indiana Pacers.

Not coincidentally, Bird had three NBA titles and has put together the best team in the league in the early going.

The woman charged with tying up her 3-year-old granddaughter had the date to enter what is expected to be a guilty plea moved from Tuesday to Jan. 7.
Carolyn Case is expected to change her not guilty plea to guilty after verbally agreeing to an undisclosed plea offer from the Commonwealth’s Attorney’s office.
No reason was give as to why the date was changed, other than that Case was not on the Circuit Court docket Tuesday morning.

Sand Spring Baptist Church is mixing the Christmas season and a little bit of a Gaither Homecoming this Sunday.
The church will present “A Sand Spring Christmas Homecoming” on Sunday, Dec. 22 at 3 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. The program will feature some of the best in local talent along with some nationally known gospel music artists.

Buoyed by a show of support from local organized labor and the fact that their effort to secure property easements in Anderson County is nearly halfway complete, officials with the companies proposing the Bluegrass Pipeline answered a host of questions from concerned residents during a public hearing Monday night.